OMG you LOST PICTURES? I would be totally ripping my hair out. Especially if my pictures looked like yours. Anyway, these are gorgeous. Never been to Japan, but I'd love to go. The closest thing I've come to is Japan at Epcot.

Nice selection and a Heron too! I am so paranoid about losing my photos that I back them up on two external drives. But lately I've been thinking that won't help if the house burns down. Yup, paranoid. Maybe a backup system in the cloud is the way to go. This does give you an excuse to travel again and replace them so I guess it's not all bad.